Office of the Historian

893.51/7017: Telegram

The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

London, December 20, 1939.
[Received December 20—2:37 p.m.]

2680. For Hornbeck. Butterworth34 bad occasion to see the Governor of the Bank of England today and he brought up the question of the Chinese Consortium. Montagu Norman has agreed to look into the matter personally and see what can be done.

Johnson
  1. William W. Butterworth, Jr., Second Secretary of Embassy in the United Kingdom.↩